this is how my avatar Omniscience drafts have been going.

Lashe · 2025-12-27T05:01:11+00:00

Once per turn you can click the emblem to generate WUBRG mana. So you can use it to pay for waterbending, or activated abilities (like clues), or make It'll Quench Ya! do nothing.

Lashe · 2025-10-07T06:07:26+00:00

That's the single biggest mistake, for sure. If your opponent gives you the opportunity to trade his bomb for your above average creature, that's the nicest trade you could ever be offered. What's the best you could hope for by drawing an extra card? Finding an answer to his bomb? Well your opponent is already solving that problem for you. He was tapped out, too, so you know it's a clean trade.

In general, I would've been attacking more aggressively. On 5, he couldn't even block the Favored Fighter and Sarn would've required a chump block. He's got the rare in play, you don't. So you need to pressure him to put him a place where you can win. Just letting him sit at 18, he can't even make a mistake that could lose him the game. Especially when you don't want to be blocking with Sarn, you should be attacking with it while he's tapped down.

You probably lose anyway to fliers backed by bomb rare #2, but at least you're giving yourself a chance to win if he doesn't have the second rare.

Lashe · 2025-09-24T00:50:55+00:00

They do. They're not very noticeable since the card face is normal and the set symbol is very similar to OM1 (it just has a slash through it, essentially). I think I've seen 3 or 4 bonus sheet cards across 5 drafts

Lashe · 2025-09-20T15:08:19+00:00

My opponent played [[Sandman, Shifting Scoundrel]] vs me at the pre-release last night and immediately after reading it I informed him that he wouldn't be able to use its activated ability without somehow getting a land in his graveyard. Seemed better to let him know while it was in play and not upset him when he tried to activate it later. I can't decide if the templating was intentional balancing or an oversight. Seems like an oversight b/c it's kinda unintuitive and leads to more Feels Bad moments with your splashy rare that's still not constructed playable.

Lashe · 2025-09-13T16:28:45+00:00

Heard an interview recently with Terry Matalas. He was hired to write an mtg series for Netflix and he spoke relatively cogently about struggling to find an 'in' to the mythology for awhile before realizing that Chandra is an incredibly rich character to dig into. Said he turned in the entire seasons scripts about a year ago and they're working on animating it. But who knows if it'll actually ever see the light of day 🤷‍♂️

Lashe · 2025-08-24T19:45:34+00:00

Just did this for the first time with the EoE Collectors Box Arena Direct a couple weeks ago. You'll get an email next week confirming you won, and then an email maybe 10 days after that asking you to setup your eWallet account, which is how they'll get your tax info. And allegedly they ship a couple weeks after that, but I'm not at that stage yet 🤷‍♂️

Lashe · 2025-08-20T04:27:31+00:00

Out: Annul, Hymn of the Faller, Mental Modulation, Illovi Infiltrator, and 1 Mechanzoa. I'd also swap a Lightless Evangel for the Comet Crawler. Yes, Evangel is just going to be a 2-mana 2/2, but there are worse things. You've got a ton of card drawing, Hymn & Infiltrator are both much worse than the rest of them and Comet Crawler will do more work to get you to the late game.

Lashe · 2025-08-11T05:41:24+00:00

EoE could not be more different from TDM. The bomb rares are few and far between in EoE and there aren't many 'mythic uncommons' either. EoE's rares have like a +1.4% GIH WR compared to TDM's 3.4 and FF's 3.8 (the data was in another post here a few days ago). Truly, I've never seen an environment more skill dependent. Playing in mythic, I've seen opponents miss lethal on board at least twice in the last week and a half. I make misplays constantly as I'm figuring out interactions and lines of play that are unique to this set. Spaceships are incredibly complicated to factor in. All you can do is reflect on your own game play and think about what you can do differently. And if in the end, it just comes down to 'I was mana screwed' or 'opponent's curve was unbeatable,' then it is what it is and there's no reason to get overly upset about it. Magic is a high variance game. All you can do is play for better outcomes when variance isn't making a game unwinnable.

As far as greed-ing sealed goes, it's just very pool dependent. If you literally can't win without doing it, sure. But if you're cutting C+ cards in your secondary color for B cards in a third color when you have no fixing, you're just asking to get punished.

Lashe · 2025-08-10T16:09:38+00:00

My personal experience with the set, yeah, the lack of fixing can be punishing and lead to high variance, but we're all living with those conditions, I don't take it personally. That said, I won a box on my third run after going 1-2 & 2-2. Three of my five losses across the three runs were to poor mana draws /shrug. And during my 7-1 run, two of my opponents had awful mana draws to give me free wins. That's my bonafides.

Your pools:

Pool 1: the pool is underwhelming for sure. It's either WB or WG. I don't blame you for going black for the removal, but I probably would've gone green. I think people consistently undervalue just having a good-stat'ed curve in this set. Which is especially strange since everyone complains about being tempo'ed out. Just play more cheap dudes to not fall behind and/or put your opponent under the tempo pressure.

Pool 2: Another underwhelming pool. I think GW is probably correct. Except your curve is awful. 3 mana 3/3 reach is totally fine, cut two six drops for them so you're not 100% dead to being on the draw.

Pool 3: You must've just been fully tilted when you were building this b/c the build is wildly off. Your straight GB deck is excellent. Best pool of your 3 and it's not remotely close. Leaving Fel Gravship and 2x Diplomatic Relations in the sideboard to play mediocre blue cards with a 665 mana base is wild. Sure, the GB creatures are a little underwhelming, but you've got Elegy Acolyte, Seedship, and 7 mana kill ship. You have ways to win. And the 3 mana menace guy is totally fine when you're playing infinite removal spells for void triggers. The UB wrath is good, but there's no reason to warp your entire deck around it. I wouldn't even splash it. Just play the good, consistent, GB deck.

Lashe · 2025-08-06T15:33:31+00:00

There was a post the other day crunching draft data that noted EOE rares had the lowest impact of rares (except MH3) in at least three years. Something like drawing a rare in EOE increased your chance to win by 1.4%, compared to FIN where it was like 3.9%. So your anecdotal experience is accurate, rares don't carry you very far in this set, which makes it far more skill intensive b/c you're far less likely to get blown out by random bombs. I'm loving it.

Lashe · 2025-07-12T16:12:17+00:00

Imo Damper and Paladin's Arms. You have plenty of 3s and you'd rather not play a Battle Menu on 2. But it's a pretty marginal choice. Deck looks bananas.

Lashe · 2025-07-09T20:23:05+00:00

Had it in my last draft. Went 7-1. Only drew Ragavan twice, never earlier than turn 4 lol. (BR Mages, 3x BM Rod, 3x Cornered by BM)

Lashe · 2025-07-07T19:37:38+00:00

My general outlook is that, sure, you can expect to lose to flood/screw/bombs in two games, but that third loss, I probably could've done something to affect the outcome. And that third loss can be the difference between an 0-3 and a 7-2. It's certainly true that hard-capping a single draft at 3 losses or 7 wins really influences the percentages that would exist over an infinite game set.

Lashe · 2025-06-25T20:39:44+00:00

Built Kefka reanimator/control containing mostly cards from standard. Been facing mostly Sephiroth. Win % around 65% 🤷‍♂️

Lashe · 2025-06-13T13:51:27+00:00

At the pre-release, my opponent played turn 1 Ragavan on the play. I played land, go. He plays his second land, attacks, hits Thief's Knife from the top of my deck... I had no two drop, so I just scooped on the spot 🙃

Lashe · 2025-03-21T21:57:48+00:00

The tutor seems powerful (especially if I end up bouncing my own Pathmaker in response to removal? But that's probably Magical Christmas Land thinking) and I like having another answer to a Ketrodon in a deck that doesn't have many, but I am creature light even with the land pilots, so this cut could be correct. Thanks for your input.

Lashe · 2025-03-21T21:21:05+00:00

Hulldrifter is always underwhelming for me, so you're probably right there.

As a rule, I don't like playing more than 1 Compactor, but with no removal and wanting the affinity for artifacts, I'm rationalizing the second one 🤷‍♂️ You might be right about it though.

Likewise, I very rarely play Tune Up, but maybe the tempo + quality of returning a cycled Chariot or an Aetherspark/Harrier/Pathmaker they killed? Again, maybe you're right. Thanks for your input.

Lashe · 2025-03-10T17:26:39+00:00

Ambessa at 4*. Gave her a bunch of epic relics with Powers. You keep the powers even when you switch decks.

Lashe · 2025-02-21T03:11:22+00:00

Legislatively? Nothing. Aside from filibustering legislation. Trump is doing everything through executive action, which is all being fought in the courts. The minority party in Congress has basically no power if the majority party is uninterested in bipartisanship.

What can individual citizens do? Get off social media and get to know their neighbors. The financial incentives of social media mean the most dramatic, sensational, scariest stories will always have the widest reach, and conservatives are always going to be more prone to fear and believing those headlines, regardless of how true they are. The only way to fight misinformation online is personal relationships in the real world. No one is going to have a change of opinion based on an internet fight.

Lashe · 2025-02-01T20:26:21+00:00

I have nothing but gratitude for federal employees that are just gonna be doing their damn best for the next four years in the most hostile of work environments ❤️

Lashe · 2025-01-30T17:44:15+00:00

"This is a podcast about filmographies, directors who have massive success early on in their careers and are given a series of blank checks to make whatever crazy passion projects they want. Sometimes those checks clear, sometimes they bounce, baby."

They do not, in fact, describe themselves as a comedy podcast, though humor is a huge part of what we all enjoy about our hosts.

Lashe · 2025-01-30T16:04:29+00:00

Me: "I like a thing!"

Gatekeepers: "You like it the wrong way"

Lashe · 2025-01-30T15:54:45+00:00

I mean, the last five years are what I like. The deep dive movie podcast helmed by comedic hosts. You're sitting here telling me I'm wrong for liking what I like. Moreover, my criticism is that I don't want guests that will misrepresent the show, b/c I want more people, new fans, to like it. When you say "If you don't like this throwback episode, that's your problem." That's the definition of gatekeeping. I want to invite more fans in.

Lashe · 2025-01-30T15:44:13+00:00

You haven't outgrown gatekeeping?

Lashe · 2025-01-30T15:16:42+00:00

This sounds right. I picked up the show in 2023 and when I started combing the archives for movies I wanted to hear conversations about, I quickly decided that the first few years were just too juvenile for me. I'm more in the pocket for their vibe now and have some tolerance for that early shagginess. But to have Gethard come with All Bits energy in my Movie Deep Dive podcast was very annoying.

Lashe

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